Germany 1999 European Parliament election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: CDU/CSU won 53 of 99 seats with 48.7% of the vote; 45.2% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 14.8 points on 1994.

Germany
Held Sunday 13 June 1999

European Parliament result

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Christian Democratic Union of Germany	43	+4	39.3	+7.3	10,628,224
Social Democratic Party of Germany	33	−7	30.7	−1.5	8,307,085
Christian Social Union in Bavaria	10	+2	9.4	+2.6	2,540,007
Alliance 90/The Greens	7	−5	6.4	−3.7	1,741,494
PDS / The Left	6	+6	5.8	+1.1	1,567,745
Free Democratic Party	0	0	3.0	−1.1	820,371
The Republicans	0	0	1.7	−2.2	461,038

± is the change against the Germany 1994 European Parliament election, party by party.

Votes by party

Christian Democratic Union of Germany 10,628,224
Social Democratic Party of Germany 8,307,085
Christian Social Union in Bavaria 2,540,007
Alliance 90/The Greens 1,741,494
PDS / The Left 1,567,745
Free Democratic Party 820,371
The Republicans 461,038

ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.

Share of the vote

Christian Democratic Union of Germany39.3%
Social Democratic Party of Germany30.7%
Christian Social Union in Bavaria9.4%
Alliance 90/The Greens6.4%
PDS / The Left5.8%
Free Democratic Party3.0%
The Republicans1.7%

Turnout

45.2% of the 60,786,904 registered voters cast a ballot (27,468,932 ballots), down 14.8 points on 1994. 27,059,273 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1979. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

CDU/CSU48.7% of votes53.5% of seats
Social Democratic Party of Germany30.7% of votes33.3% of seats
Alliance 90/The Greens6.4% of votes7.1% of seats
PDS / The Left5.8% of votes6.1% of seats
Free Democratic Party3.0% of votes0.0% of seats

Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.9 by votes and 2.5 by seats; CDU/CSU led Social Democratic Party of Germany by 18.0 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal

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